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Qualcomm Incorporated
QCOM today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, Inc., is
collaborating with ResMed
RMD, King's Daughters Medical Center and
CareCentrix to develop next-generation connected health solutions powered by
Qualcomm Life's transformational 2net™ and HealthyCircles™ platforms, enabling
continuous care, informed interventions and better management of at-risk
populations. The announcement was part of Qualcomm Life's annual Connect 2014
conference taking place on August 11-12, 2014 in San Diego, California.
By integrating with Qualcomm Life's scalable solutions, these companies now
have access to one of the world's largest open and interoperable mHealth
ecosystems of medical device, applications and service companies in the health
care industry. By liberating vital health and biometric data, Qualcomm Life is
assisting these companies with the clinical context and exception-based
management tools to efficiently enable care team coordination for transitional
care and chronic care management.
"This is a very exciting time in the connected health space and we are pleased
to have these innovative companies join in our mission to mobilize health care
to increase access to care and improve patient outcomes," said Rick Valencia,
senior vice president and general manager, Qualcomm Life. "With more than 400
companies in the Qualcomm Life Ecosystem, we are uniquely positioned to
reinvent health care by shifting connected health solutions from a novel
technology to a standard of care."
ResMed, a leader in innovative medical equipment for sleep-disordered
breathing and other respiratory disorders, is using Qualcomm Life's technology
to streamline transitions of care from the hospital and into the home. Of
note, ResMed is integrating the 2net Hub and Platform with its Astral™ 100 and
Astral 150 life support ventilators to seamlessly capture and transfer near
real-time biometric data to the HealthyCircles care coordination platform,
which allows care teams to effectively monitor and manage patients by
exception. Additionally, ResMed is using HealthyCircles in combination with
its continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device to enable hospitals and
care providers to closely monitor patients to prevent hospital readmissions.
"Working with Qualcomm Life extends our data solutions into the
next-generation of remote patient monitoring solutions," said Jeremy Malecha,
senior director, Product Management, ResMed-Americas. "The 2net and
HealthyCircles Platforms infrastructure streamlines data collection and
transmission, enabling continuous, quality respiratory care for patients
beyond the hospital."
King's Daughters Medical Center (KDMC), located in Ashland, Ky., is
collaborating with Qualcomm Life to deploy and scale its health services to
manage employers' high-risk patient populations with complex care needs in
Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. Focused on patients with heart failure,
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, KDMC's integrated
care coordination and management services will increase touch points in the
rural community and link community-based providers through the 2net and
HealthyCircles Platforms.
"Qualcomm Life's strong leadership in the connected health space makes them
the ideal collaborator for our preventative, transitional and complex care
services," said Matt Ebaugh, Chief Strategy Officer at KDMC. "The 2net and
HealthyCircles Platforms will allow us to develop reliable and cost-effective
complex care coordination and management solutions to closely monitor and care
for our high-risk patients in rural communities."
For nearly twenty years CareCentrix has helped health plans and providers
lower costs and improve health outcomes for patients. John Driscoll,
CareCentrix CEO and a keynote speaker at Connect 2014 noted, "We are
passionately committed to creating a world where anyone can age and heal in
the comfort of their home. Collaborating with Qualcomm Life will help us build
on our long track record of driving value for health plans and providers in
the post- acute arena. Qualcomm Life's unique and scalable solutions represent
an improvement in delivering innovative care solutions to the home."
Sponsored by GlobalLogic and WebMD, the third annual Connect 2014 is expected
to draw more than 300 leaders from across the connected health industry to
discuss best practices and innovative solutions that will accelerate adoption
and establish evidence surrounding connected health technology to define a
successful mHealth roadmap. David Ziegler, Director of Mobile Product
Management at WebMD, will be speaking about the company's efforts to make
health information actionable. Ziegler will provide an overview of Healthy
Target, a behavior change program within its flagship mobile app, which
leverages Qualcomm Life's 2net Platform to aggregate biometric data with its
rich set of content and tools to empower consumers to better manage their
health. Additional notable speakers will include Bakul Patel, Senior Policy
Advisor at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); Adam Pellegrini, VP of
Digital Health at Walgreens; Dr. Sachin Jain, Chief Medical Information and
Innovation Officer at Merck; and Dr. Leslie Saxon, Executive Director of the
USC Center for Body Computing.
The full conference agenda can be found here. For updates and to join
real-time conversations from Connect 2014, follow @QualcommLife and
#QualcommConnect on Twitter.
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